Stacey Dooley (2009)

With the UN and FBI suspecting that there are up to 750,000 people online at any one time hunting for children to exploit, how can the booming cybersex trade be policed effectively? Kicking off BBC Three’s Gender Season, Stacey Dooley presents the first of two hard-hitting films from some of the worst places in the world to be female. She investigates why some young women today live in such dangerous, desperate and degrading conditions. In this episode Stacey travels to the Philippines - fast becoming the world capital of the cybersex industry. Here, girls who are rarely let out and often underage must perform on webcams and be photographed for a global online audience. Within the last year alone, 139 Brits were investigated for paying to watch Philippine children being abused. Stacey learns how poverty combined with cheap internet access has led to an increasing number of girls being exposed to online sexual abuse. Discovering the harrowing truth behind this widespread exploitation

Oct. 19, 2015, midnight

Stacey travels to the Central American republic of Honduras, a country with one of the highest murder rates for young females in the world and which has banned abortion and the contraceptive pill. She spends a night with students campaigning for more rights for women and visits the Honduras district attorney's office, only to be angered by the unwillingness to provide answers.

Oct. 26, 2015, midnight